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We are pleased to announce the recipients of the Ruth Glenn Award, our DES Graduate Research Fellowships, and the Best Graduate Student Paper Award.

• LeAnna Luney received the Ruth Glenn Award to support her dissertation research exploring the intersections of power and how they impact forgotten people's realities, in tandem with Ruth M. Glenn’s mission to bring attention to domestic violence and how networks of power exacerbate such violence at various intersections. 
• Shawn O’Neal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support his dissertation project, Audio Intersectionality: Disrupting Hegemonic Structures Against Marginalized Communities.
• LeAnna Luney received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation study, How African American College Students Cope at the ����������.
• Natasha Myhal received a Graduate Research Fellowship Award to support her dissertation research, Returning to Our Stories: Healing from the Land Within Ottawa Natural Resource Management.
• LeAnna Luney received the Best Graduate Student Paper Award for her work: “The Decoloniality in Black Psychology: Discovering Implications of Decolonial Options in Black or African American Psychology Discourse.”
• Jenean McGee received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for her paper, “The Unscripted Script of Black YouTube (BYT): African American Women Family Vloggers Performance of Whiteness Through Property.”
• Lau Malaver also received Honorable Mention for the Best Graduate Student Paper for their paper, “Performing a Commons of Pain Through Recovecos: Excess, Silence, Endurance, and Coloniality.” 
   

Congratulations to all!

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PhD. student Natasha Myhal has been awarded the Native American Natural Resource Research Scholarship, which will allow her to continue her research fieldwork with Anishinaabe communities this summer. The Intertribal Timber Council (ITC), in partnership with the USDA Forest Service Southern Research Station, provides scholarship opportunities for Native American students who are planning or currently conducting tribally relevant research in a natural resource issue. The ITC Research Scholarship is designed to support tribally relevant, natural resource based research being conducted by Native American scholars.  

Congrats, Natasha!

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Congrats to Natasha Myhal received a Research Experience for Graduate students (REG) award from the National Science Foundation! The award will allow her to carry out preliminary field research with Anishinaabe tribal governments and communities in Michigan and Minnesota this summer regarding their approaches to natural resource management. 

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Congrats to our PhD student, Natasha Myhal, on receiving the distinction of Honorable Mention for the Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship Competition!

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Ethnic Studies PhD student Natasha Myhal will present at the 2018 Native American Literature Symposium in Spirit Lake, MN on her Master's research. She draws from the mixed methods of Indigenous Studies and botany fieldwork to look comparatively at the field of ethnobotany and federal policy, focusing on the importance of medicinal plants and the impact of federal harvest policies. She seeks to use interdisciplinary methodologies from Environmental Studies, Cultural Geography, and Native American Studies to better understand Indigenous environmental practices. 

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